Re: What happened to my mail log?

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2015-03-13 21:12 +0100, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote:

> I have Postfix and Dovecot running on my Debian Jessie/testing system.
> When I first setup the system a few months ago, I know that Postfix and
> Dovecot were both logging to /var/log/mail.log through syslog because I
> was using it to diagnose issues. I can also view entries in the old
> rotated files (/var/log/mail.log.4.gz).
>
> It seems that they are not logging [there] anymore. My Postfix
> configuration has no options set regarding logs, which leaves
> everything at default (using the mail facility of syslog). Dovecot is
> also set to log to the mail facility of syslog.

Is your syslog daemon actually running?

> I have not installed any type of non-default syslog, nor have I touched
> the syslog config or any log rotation daemon's config.

So I assume you use rsyslog.  What does "service rsyslog status" say?

Cheers,
       Sven